Community can make things bigger. We discuss various thing with others like blog, forums and when people join your discussion that makes the matter important and popular and more and more people start joining your discussion and that makes good healthy community.
Flickr has been a wonderful home for our community of “Blind Photographers (Blind Photographers on Flickr) “:http://www.flickr.com/groups/blind_photographers/. I created the group a few years ago wondering if I were the only visually impaired person using a camera. Now we have a group of 115 members, half of which are active. Not only to we share photography, but discuss vision issues and camera accessibility tips. We are currently doing a project to discuss how visual impairment affects our photography.
I do not think another site would have brought us all together. The main social sites like Facebook and Myspace are not friendly to this type of group. Dedicated sites just get lost in the vastness of cyber space.
Thanks to all you folks at flickr for doing what you have done.
PS If you would like advice on making flickr more accessible to the blind and visually impaired, all of us in “Blind Photographers (Blind Photographers on Flickr) “:http://www.flickr.com/groups/blind_photographers/ would love to help
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Community can make things bigger. We discuss various thing with others like blog, forums and when people join your discussion that makes the matter important and popular and more and more people start joining your discussion and that makes good healthy community.
Tim O'Brien
Flickr has been a wonderful home for our community of “Blind Photographers (Blind Photographers on Flickr) “:http://www.flickr.com/groups/blind_photographers/. I created the group a few years ago wondering if I were the only visually impaired person using a camera. Now we have a group of 115 members, half of which are active. Not only to we share photography, but discuss vision issues and camera accessibility tips. We are currently doing a project to discuss how visual impairment affects our photography.
I do not think another site would have brought us all together. The main social sites like Facebook and Myspace are not friendly to this type of group. Dedicated sites just get lost in the vastness of cyber space.
Thanks to all you folks at flickr for doing what you have done.
PS If you would like advice on making flickr more accessible to the blind and visually impaired, all of us in “Blind Photographers (Blind Photographers on Flickr) “:http://www.flickr.com/groups/blind_photographers/ would love to help
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